The Preference of the Mosque with the Larger Congregation
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Question:
A questioner says: If there are two mosques, one where five hundred people pray and another where one hundred people pray, how is the preference determined between these mosques?
Answer:
There is no doubt that the one with the larger congregation is better; the one with the larger congregation is the better one. However, if going to it draws attention away from the mosque that is near you, such that people say there is something between you and the imam that the imam dislikes, or something similar to such grievances, then you pray in the nearby mosque. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you. Honorable Shaykh
A questioner says: If there are two mosques, one where five hundred people pray and another where one hundred people pray, how is the preference determined between these mosques?
Answer:
There is no doubt that the one with the larger congregation is better; the one with the larger congregation is the better one. However, if going to it draws attention away from the mosque that is near you, such that people say there is something between you and the imam that the imam dislikes, or something similar to such grievances, then you pray in the nearby mosque. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you. Honorable Shaykh
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 03/032 — archive.org (14:15)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.